Your favorite potty-mouthed kindergartener meets time-traveling train demons. Chaos ensues.
A sixty minute special of the Crayon Shin-chan anime featuring a crossover between Shin-chan and the live action tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Den-O, as well as three normal summer-themed episodes. The Den-O characters are drawn in the style of Shin-chan's regular characters. Another thing of note, inbetween commercial breaks, clips of a live action Shin-Chan onboard the Den-Liner or with characters from the Kamen Rider Den-O Series were shown. In most of these scenes it involves the Owner giving Shin a speech of sorts or making Shin feel uncomfortable.
Production
Den-O characters redrawn in Shin-chan's potato-head style
Stunts
Live-action Shin-chan physically existing on the Den-Liner
Acting
Takeru Satō committing to this nonsense pre-Your Name fame
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This aired during Den-O's peak popularity, when the series was basically printing money for Toei—hence letting a five-year-old anime gremlin canonically meet Japan's favorite time-traveling train heroes.
The live-action Shin-chan segments reflect Japan's 2000s obsession with 'real-life anime' characters in variety shows, often played by costumed adults in deliberately unsettling makeup.
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